External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Panic is a gateway to wisdom. When we learn to stay present with our panic, it becomes our teacher.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Our own life has to be our message.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

The root of all mind is your own present pure awareness. Rest in that essence without seeking elsewhere.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

The practice of meditation requires both energy and patience, both effort and relaxation.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.